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The executioner is dangerous when he’s bored.
The burning heaven coils.

Knocking is heard from cell to cell
and space streams up out of the ground frost.

Some of the stones shine like full moons.

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October 8, 1998

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Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer is the recipient of the the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. (November 2011)

Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters is a poet, novelist, and translator. (October 1998)

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October 8, 1998

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